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The 2014 Verizon IndyCar Series season begins with the Firestone Grand
Prix of St. Petersburg on the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla.

St. Petersburg has hosted an IndyCar race each year since 2005. This event has
been the season-opener in the series the past three years as well as in 2009.

Helio Castroneves is the only driver with multiple victories in the Firestone
Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Castroneves has won this race three times (2006,
'07 and '12).

James Hinchcliffe scored his first career IndyCar victory in last year's race
in St. Petersburg. Hinchcliffe passed Castroneves for the lead after a restart
on lap 85. He then held off Castroneves for the remaining 26 laps. Hinchcliffe
became the first Canadian driver to win an IndyCar race since Paul Tracy took
the checkered flag for the 2007 CART Series event in Cleveland.

Dan Wheldon won the inaugural IndyCar race in St. Petersburg in '05.

Tony Kanaan has seven top-5 finishes in St. Petersburg, which is more than any
other driver. Kanaan has yet to win a race at this circuit. His best finish
there is second, which came in '05.

The winner in St. Petersburg has gone on to win the IndyCar championship twice
in nine years of the event: Wheldon (2005) and Dario Franchitti (2011).

The Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg has been won from the pole position
just twice: Castroneves (2007) and Will Power (2010). Power has won the pole
in each of the last four races in St. Pete.

When Graham Rahal took the checkered flag in St. Petersburg on April 6, 2008,
he became the youngest driver ever to win an IndyCar race. Rahal was 19 years
and 93 days old when he scored his first career victory in the series.

The next race is the April 13 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on the streets
of Long Beach, Calif. Takuma Sato won last year's event there.